Arab People, Unite, Make Sustained Efforts, and Fight Imperialism To the End!

AS a result of the large-scale armed aggression suddenly unleashed by the U.S.-Israeli aggressors and the pressure being exerted on the Arab countries by the United Slates, Britain and the Soviet Union working in collusion, the Governments of the United Arab Republic, Syria and Jordan have been compelled to announce their acceptance of the U.N. Security Council's ''ceasefire resolution." But under cover of the U.N. "ceasefire," U.S. imperialism's lackey, Israel, continues to launch largo-scale attacks against Syria. The Arab people's struggle of resistance to U.S. imperialism and its lackey is now at a critical stage. The struggle of the Arab people against U.S. imperialism and its lackey has merely suffered a temporary setback; the flames have not been extinguished and they never will. Ever since the war of aggression was launched by the United States and Israel, a wave of extensive mass struggle against the United States has been sweeping through the Arab world. This is an expression of the unprecedented awakening of the Arab people. Although a "cease-fire" has been announced, the spirit of the Arab people remains high and they continue to strike at U.S. imperialism and its lackey in various ways; they are determined to fight the aggressors to the end. For many years, the Arab people have waged heroic struggles to win and safeguard national independence. Despite repeated setbacks in their struggles, they have nonetheless achieved tremendous successes. Neither the setback in the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, nor the 1950 "tripartite declaration" in which the United Stales, Britain and France jointly interfered in Arab affairs, have been able to halt the development of the Arab national-liberation struggles. The imperialists were quite arrogant for a while after forming the 1955 Baghdad military bloc, but the Arab people continued to forge ahead. When the Suez war of aggression was launched by the imperialists in 1956, the Arab people closed their ranks and firmly countered the imperialist aggressors. The Arab people were not intimidated when the imperialists plotted aggression against Syria in 1957 or when U.S. imperialism landed its troops in Lebanon and staged armed intervention in the Iraqi revolution in 1958. Facts have demonstrated that the great Arab people have a dauntless fighting spirit and that temporary setbacks only serve to boost their fighting will. The great leader of the Chinese people Chairman MHO Tse-tung has said: "Fight, fail, fight again, fail again, fight again . . . till their victory; that is the logic of the people." This is a law of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Tse-tung's thought. The Chinese people s revolution has followed this law. The national-liberation struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American peoples have followed this law. The Arab people's struggle against imperialism and its lackey will also inevitably follow this law. All the political forces in the world have undergone a test through the developments in the Middle East, especially in the face of the Arab people's just war against aggression. Imperialism, headed by the United States, Soviet modern revisionism and the reactionaries of all countries have in a thousand and one ways instigated and encouraged the Israeli aggression, and tried to suppress the Arab people's struggle against aggression. The Chinese people and the peoples of the world have stood firmly by the Arab people, fully exposed the U.S.-British-Soviet big counter-revolutionary scheme and extended their all-out support to the Arab people in their struggle against aggression. This is the clear line of demarcation between the two camps. This is a fact which has opened wide the eyes of the Arab people and enables them to recognize even more clearly who are their sinister enemies and who their loyal, reliable comrades-in-arms. The ferocious features of U.S. imperialism have been completely revealed. Cold facts have proved that U.S. imperialism is the chief culprit in the staging of this war of aggression, the arch criminal suppressing the Arab people, the biggest aggressor pushing ahead with neo-colonialism in the Arab world, and the No. 1 sworn enemy of the 100 million Arab people. The aggressive features of British imperialism have also been thoroughly exposed. It was Britain which joined with the United States in engineering and supporting Israel's armed attacks on the Arab countries and which engaged in all sorts of cunning political manoeuvres to bring pressure to bear on them. This senile, decrepit old-style imperialism has gone utterly mad in promoting its neo-colonialism in an attempt to maintain its shaky colonialist position in Asia and Africa. French imperialism, which claimed to be "neutral” during these events, has actually played "big power politics" along with the United Stales, Britain and the Soviet Union and shown itself as standing on the side of the U.S.-Israeli aggressors. Through the recent developments in the Middle East, the Arab people have learnt an important lesson. They have come to gradually recognize the sinister features of the Soviet revisionist clique as those of a false and treacherous friend. Israel's armed aggression against the Arab people was in essence a frantic attack jointly plotted by the United Stales and the Soviet Union. It was also a joint U.S.-Soviet political manoeuvre to trap the Arab countries. Examine the facts! The Soviet revisionist clique on the one hand "guaranteed" that Israel would not attack and on the other, working hand in glove with the United States, instigated Israel to launch a surprise attack on the Arab countries and catch I hem unawares. One day it voiced "support" for the Arab people and the next day it engaged in behind-the-scenes dealings with the United States and cooked up a so-called "ceasefire" resolution in the U.N. Security Council, a most shameless betrayal of the Arab people. It publicly issues one statement after another, one note after another, in "condemnation" of Israel, while secretly flirting with Israel. When Israel took over control of the Tiran Strait, a Soviet vessel was the first ship to pass the Gulf of Aqaba. The Soviet revisionist clique is a heinous swindler specializing in double-dealings, a big traitor to the Arab people and, in collusion with U.S. and British imperialism, a butcher suppressing the Arab peoples struggle against aggression. The Arab people's struggle against imperialist aggression will be a protracted one. Looked at in essence and from a long-term point of view, it is the Arab people who are really powerful. U.S. imperialism, British imperialism, Soviet revisionism, Israel — all are paper tigers. It is only a temporary phenomenon that Israel, by relying on the assistance of U.S. and British imperialism and Soviet revisionism, has been able to occupy some Arab territory by force of arms. The Arab people will sooner or later liberate all their territory now under forcible occupation by imperialism and its lackey. Without fail the debt owed by imperialism to them will be repaid. No force on earth can slop the Arab people from exercising their sacred right! An excellent revolutionary situation now prevails throughout the whole world. Anti-U.S. struggles are growing vigorously everywhere. The heroic Vietnamese people, giving full play to the infinite power of people's war, have badly mauled the nearly 500000 U.S. aggressor troops. Over the vast expanses of Asia, Africa and Latin America the people are more awakened than ever before and the flames of anti-imperialist revolution burn ever higher. The imperialist bloc is heading towards disintegration, and the modern revisionist clique is beset with difficulties, the world situation is extremely favourable to the revolutionary people of all countries and most unfavourable to imperialism. It is favourable to the Arab people for persistence in their fight against aggression. Whatever desperate struggles imperialism, headed by the United Stales, may make and whatever despicable treacherous activities the Soviet modern revisionists may conduct, this general trend of the world situation can never be changed. The zigzags which the Arab people encounter in the course of their anti-imperialist struggle can under no circumstances halt their continuous advance. Chairman Mao has said: "The people, and the people alone, arc the motive force in the making of world history." The Arab people are the makers of Arab history. No encroachment on or violation of Arab land by imperialism and its lackey will be tolerated. So long as the 100 million Arab people raise their political consciousness, adopt correct policies and persevere in struggle, they will certainly be able to drive away the old and new colonialists, headed by the United States, and to wipe out all aggressor bandits! Arab people! Be united! Make sustained and redoubled efforts! Plunge into long-term fierce struggles! The 700 million Chinese people support you. So do all the revolutionary people the world over. Final victory will surely belong to the heroic Arab people!